Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Arion, Playing a Lyre, Saved by a Dolphin
about 1590
Jan Harmensz Muller
After Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem
Published by Claes Jansz Visscher, Jr.
Platemark: 35.5 x 35.7 cm (14 x 14 1/16 in.)
Engraving, second state
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2012.340
Provenance/Ownership History: Sold by C.G. Boerner, New York to Robert Wheaton (d. 2010) and Barbara Wheaton, Concord, MA; 2012, gift of Barbara Wheaton to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 27, 2012)
Gift of Barbara Ketcham Wheaton in memory of Robert Bradford Wheaton